Tag Archives: FRC

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: A U.S. House committee has scheduled a hearing on July 12 for federal “religious freedom” legislation seen to enable anti-LGBT discrimination, the Washington Blade has learned. The House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform is set to hold a hearing on the First Amendment Defense Act amid pressure from anti-LGBT advocates, including the …

Deluded hate group leader Tony Perkins seems to believe that there is a First Amendment right to appear on cable news shows. He writes: The Supreme Court’s definition of marriage may have changed, but the Left’s goals haven’t. In the year since five justices tried to overturn thousands of years of human history by legalizing gay marriage, liberals were supposed …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: The war for Britain’s independence didn’t involve muskets and cannons, but ballots. And the U.K. cast plenty of them in favor of leaving the suffocating authority of the European Union (E.U.). In a blockbuster vote that came down to the wire, the British people rocked the world with the decision to …

The Family Research Council observed LGBT Pride this morning by tweeting out the above lavender-hued message in support of the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), the bill which would bar the federal government from taking action against individuals or companies that discriminate against LGBT Americans on the basis of “religious belief or moral conviction.” FADA currently has 170 co-sponsors in …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: The media has been calling last night’s Democratic sit-in a “revolt.” And people were revolted all right. A little over a week after the worst U.S. terror attack since 9/11, House Democrats seem intent on helping radical Islam carry out another one. When liberals spend hours derailing House business to force …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: The far-Left must be desperate for moral victories, because now they’re making them up! This past weekend, a liberal group launched a petition to ABC News encouraging them to cancel my appearance. Of course, this is nothing new for me or FRC. Among the many things I’ve observed firsthand about the …

Via Raw Story: Protesters disrupted a press conference on Tuesday of religious leaders as they discussed their meeting earlier in the day with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, NPR reported. Footage from the event posted by Newsday shows a woman telling the group, “Your hate is killing us. Your lies are killing us.” Another woman asked Tony Perkins, who appeared …

Via press release: ACT UP NY along with leaders from Muslim, Latinx and LGBTQ organizations will rally in front of Trump tower in New York City against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s use of the recent massacre at a gay bar in Orlando to polarize Americans. On Tuesday June 21st, 2016 Donald Trump will meet with the leaders of multiple …

ABC booted Tony Perkins from yesterday’s news show but MSNBC hosted him later in the day. Perkins is promoting tomorrow’s meeting with Donald Trump, where he and fellow evangelical haters will advise Trump on how to win over the religious right, most of whom had backed Ted Cruz. Raw Story recaps: When asked what Perkins plans to tell the GOP …

Zack Ford reports at ThinkProgress: This week, a prominent news agency considered offering a platform to the leader of an anti-LGBT hate group to discuss the Orlando shooting, then quietly dropped him from the show without ever mentioning that it was a bad idea in the first place. On Friday morning, ABC News released a preview of its guest line-up …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Unfortunately, the attacks on U.S. soil have only grown in this administration’s refusal to call them what they are — Islamic terrorism. The gunman, a homegrown extremist who reportedly pledged his allegiance to ISIS before his bloody rampage, left little doubt about his motivation — a motivation the president still refuses …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: This week, the president is back at it, using his Bible of convenience to justify his outrageous decree on public school bathrooms and showers. To the disgust of most Christians, Obama insisted that “my reading of Scripture tells me that [the] Golden Rule is pretty high up there in terms of …

“We are not disqualified from engaging in the public square simple because we’re Christian. And that’s where we’re at today, where people want us to check our Christian faith at the door of even public service; not just holding public office, but if you’re a fireman, a policeman, a teacher, a football coach, you’re supposed to leave your faith at …

Kyle Mantyla report at Right Wing Watch: At least week’s Watchmen on the Wall conference, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins presented Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant with the first ever “Samuel Adams Religious Freedom Award” for having signed a radical anti-LGBT bill into law earlier this year that will allow businesses to deny service to gay people. While introducing the …

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: If Ohio is the bellwether of America, then the president’s agenda is in a heap of trouble. The Buckeye State isn’t about to stand back and let the Obama administration take its schools hostage to a transgender agenda that puts its students at risk. This morning, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine …

Next month Donald Trump will meet with many of the well-known Christian leaders that want you dead or imprisoned. Via Right Wing Watch: Trump, who has already recruited a variety of far-right activists and conspiracy theorists to his campaign, is set to take part in a convening organized by Ben Carson, a former rival turned campaign surrogate, aimed at bringing …

From the Family Research Council’s prayer of the day: In December, President Obama nominated Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s Chief of Staff, Eric Fanning, to become Secretary of the Army. Confirmed by the Senate, Fanning becomes the most senior civilian official in DOD history who identifies as homosexual, overseeing the largest branch of the U.S. Military. Fanning was not the …

Last night Family Research Council hater Travis Weber appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball, where he flailed and failed to answer when host Chris Matthews repeatedly asked him which bathroom trans activist Jennifer Boylan should use. Media Matters has the transcript: CHRIS MATTHEWS (HOST): Travis, tell Jenny what bathroom she should use. TRAVIS WEBER: Well — MATTHEWS: Which one should she use? …

KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins today told infamous liar Todd Starnes that President Obama must be impeached in retaliation for today’s pro-trans guidelines to public schools. Via Starnes: Perkins told me Congress must intervene to stop what he called an imperial president. “If the president chooses to go forward with this outrageous order – then congress should begin impeachment …

Last night it was learned that the Obama administration will issue new guidelines directing all public schools nationwide to allow trans students to use the bathroom of their choosing. This morning Tony Perkins is out with yet another frantic money beg. Here’s the entire thing: Protect Our Children! The Obama administration is ramping up its efforts to force public schools …